From my experience, pure builds are usually the most straightforward and boring of them all, even if they're considered optimal at any given time. I always have a lot more fun doing something weird or gimmicky.

Do an unconventional build that mixes Druid's Season Herald with Sorcerer's Fire Savant (during summer) and Air Savant (during winter). Bonus points if you add in Artificer levels for those electric SLAs.

Or a half-elf dragonmarked Air Savant who uses Call Lightning Storm. I suppose you could again splash in a few Arti levels for electric SLAs too.

Or make a Battle Engineer build that mixes runearm damage with Sorcerer Savant spells or Eldritch Knight for a "battle mage" theme.

Or a build with 6 levels of Ranger for the Deepwood Sniper bluff attack core ability, which allows you to capitalize on sneak attacks and take some Rogue and/or Monk levels. I guess you could also combine the DWS bluff attack with Winter Wolf sneak attack damage as well. Do people even do wolf builds these days?

Of course, none of these ideas would be able to solo EE or whatever, so if that's your idea of "fun" then my suggestions are going to be stupid. But usually, from my experience, mixing in some weird class splashes can be pretty fun. I tend to just build whichever role I'd like to play, rather than just asking myself "okay, what's the most optimal or powerful build at the moment?" If I want to play as a wolf, then I'll make a wolf build, or if I want to make a battle mage build, I'll do that, even if none of it is flavor of the month. That, to me, is more FUN, though of course your mileage may vary. Just my two cents.

Sword and board is a flavor build unless you go full retard tank (which is pointless for a solo-er like you.) The best paladin (and soon to be cleric) DPS build is THF Silvanus Maul. Unfortunately you can't get there with a LR. No Bard, Barb, or druid either without an alignment change. Assuming you want to stay melee, you could go Shintao, Tempest, Kensei, or Assassin. There are good builds out there for all of those. They usually don't call for bladeforged or warforged, but that can make it more fun I suppose. Or you could wait a week or two and roll a war domain cleric with the next update.

noamineo wrote on Sep 14^th, 2017 at 1:59pm:


It should get the job done. Go for the Sense Weakness/Balanced Attacks combo when you hit epic.